This category contains current news on environmental health-related topics.
Dr. Guy Iverson, ECU Environmental Health (EH) faculty, was featured this week in the CBS-19 Raleigh news for his work at ECU on the testing of wastewater from residence halls for SARS-CoV-2 this semester…
Dr. Guy Iverson, ECU Environmental Health (EH) faculty, was featured tonight in the local news (WITN and WNCT) for being part of an ECU team that will start testing wastewater from residence halls this…
Dr. Guy Iverson, ECU Environmental Health (EH) faculty, was featured in the ECU News today for being part of an ECU team that will test wastewater from residence halls this semester to detect SARS-CoV-2…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recently published a report titled ‘2019 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2020 Outlook’ (referred to as ‘the report’ here after) that reports the…
The Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in collaboration with their counterparts in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have begun a COVID-19 air quality…
Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been used for decades in the industrial practice of making certain plastics and resins [1]. The most common uses of these plastics are food and beverage containers, such as plastic food…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), along with state and local partners are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora infections which has been linked to Fresh…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly impacted the world in many ways. This virus is generally transmitted from person-to-person via airborne droplets produced when an infectious person coughs and/or sneezes [1]. These droplets can…
Dr. Charles Humphrey and Dr. Guy Iverson were featured this week in a blog posted by the Water Resources Research Institute. Drs. Humphrey and Iverson are co-investigators in a recent research on wastewater management and…
The Master of Science in Environmental Health Program at East Carolina University was ranked #1 among the top 10 Masters in Environmental Health Degrees Online 2019. Johns Hopkins University, New York Medical College and…